Campral/Naltraxone...I'm freaking out

I have been taking Campral....and I feel like it has helped me TREMENDOUSLY with cravings...I am not even taking the prescribed dose...which was 3x a day for me and 2 pills each time.

I am taking 2 pills a day.

I have been gaining weight like crazy...so I started looking up pills that I am taking and the side effects.  AND found "weight gain" is listed as a SERIOUS side effect.  

I also have been more short of breath lately..and "shortness of breath" is also listed as a SERIOUS side effect.

I'm frreaking out because I think I have to stop Campral and it is helping me.

So I looked up other drugs that stop cravings and Naltraxone was one of them. 

Has anyone here that has stopped drinking using Naltraxone continued to take this pill and noticed they are not craving a drink?

Joanna and Paul...if you read this....what are your thoughts on the craving aspects of Naltraxone?

I am going to call my Dr. today but it is only 7:30 here and I wanted to get this off my chest.

Also..interesting reading I copied..while researching Campral:

Patients in the European trials tended to be more severely alcohol dependent than those in the U.S. studies, and most patients in European studies had been abstinent for longer periods before starting Campral, two factors that could account for the difference in the findings, according to the NIAAA.

"We use medicines to help detoxify people, but even after detoxification occurs the neurochemistry is still not in very good balance, and probably even more importantly, when your brain thinks it's going to get alcohol, that elicits these compensatory neural changes so that the body goes through the equivalent of a little mild withdrawal, and [Campral] blocks that," Volpicelli explains.

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